Charlemont Reports
Charlemont Grants awarded 2023
22 February 2023Please click download to view a list of the most recent Charlemont Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2024.
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Virtue and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics
27 November 2022The grant was devoted to a stay in Paris to work with Professor Pierre-Marie Morel at Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and prepare an article on natural virtue in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics.
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Identifying supports for gifted students from low-income households in Dublin, Ireland
25 November 2022The project explores the various supports for gifted socio-economically disadvantaged students in Ireland, and what supports parents, teachers and students believe must exist to fulfil potential.
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Cultural Democracy and Cultural Policy: A Comparative Case Study of Ireland and Denmark
23 November 2022The aim to establish a Cultural Democracy Working Group has been achieved and has already developed into a formal network and a submitted research bid to build on the Charlemont work.
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Autocratic Revolving Doors: A biographic approach to studying autocratic elites.
22 November 2022The area of research explaining the return of autocratic elites is vastly understudied and lacks systematic empirical evidence.
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Evolving Multi-Objective Robot Swarms (EvoMORS)
17 November 2022This research proposed an evolutionary multi-objective (MO) neural network (NN) for robot swarm control.
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Histories of Emotion and the Built Environment (HEBE)
14 November 2022To develop a research network and publications, with scholars from Ireland, Northern Ireland, GB, and Sweden with a focus on research into the history of emotions and the built environment.
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Generation of 3D tissue constructs for repair of tendon and ligament rupture
02 September 2022Investigating the development of tendons and establish an in vitro cell culture system to explore biological and mechanical aspects required to form functional load-bearing tissue in the adult.
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The social and political world of a British magnate in Ireland: The correspondence and career of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, 1634-41
29 August 2022This project sought to investigate documentary material pertaining to the first earl of Cork, Richard Boyle, and his social world, specifically in the 1630s.
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Combining analogue and computational models to investigate lava spine extrusion
17 August 2022A multidisciplinary study that combined analogue modelling, numerical modelling, and remote sensing observations of the 2020 spine extrusion at Shiveluch volcano, Kamchatka.
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Metabolomic analysis of nanocoronas and their impact in ecotoxicity
08 August 2022I visited the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, to use high sensitivity and resolution mass spectrometers to analyze the molecular composition of daphniid conditioned media.
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A systematic review of the Good Behaviour Game literature; Investigating the differences between randomised controlled trials and single case research designs
03 August 2022The main aim of this project was to initiate a systematic review on the Good Behaviour Game, encompassing all of the available published research on the topic.
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‘Feeling Home’: telling a digital sensorial story of medieval Irish houses
25 July 2022In this Charlemont Fellowship, I wanted to develop a way to showcase the complex lives of medieval households by building on the material evidence.
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Irish American Diasporic Exchange 1930-2000
05 July 2022Research was carried out in three locations in the USA (New York Irish Centre, Irish American Museum Albany, Irish Cultural Centre Boston, MA.
Download Developing an intervention to reduce natural-disaster related distress
30 June 2022The review findings will inform future collaborative development of perinatal mental health interventions during public health emergencies, including natural disasters and also pandemics.
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Characterising Energy Critical Metal occurrence in the Irish-type Zn-Pb deposits
29 June 2022The main finding of this study is the precise chemical composition of the Irish sulphide ore and carbonate mineral phases tailing samples, which was measured by Electron Probe (EPMA) analysis.
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Family Conflicts: Love and Hate
16 August 2022The key achievements so far are successful data collection, establishing a key research contact in Sweden and disseminating findings to the wider public.
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09 June 2022This funding brought together scholars from various fields to discuss the topic, and proved an excellent step for future collaborations
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Onomastic Perspectives on Literary Landscapes in Medieval Ireland
22 April 2022This project examined how toponyms are presented and etymologized in the longest known narrative tale in medieval Irish, known as Acallam na Senórach.
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08 March 2022Please click download to view a list of the most recent Charlemont Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2023.
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A Four Nations Art History? The G. F. Watts Memorial Exhibition, 1905-06
11 March 2022Archival research to consult a wide range of sources relating to the Watts Memorial Exhibition, including a full suite of the exhibition catalogues and associated primary source materials.
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The New Orleans Cotton Exchange and the Role of Private Order Institutions in Market Development
23 March 2022A one week trip to archives of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
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Governance in Early Childhood Education and Care: the case of Argentina
22 February 2022In this project, I intended to address the map of ECEC provision in its complexity from a systems perspective.
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The Memorialisation of War in the Work of Otto Dix, 1914-1934
31 December 2021Examining work created by an artist who spent thirty-eight months as a frontline soldier, paying close attention to the socio-political and artistic conditions at the time of the works’ creation.
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An automatic auditory investigation of speech synthesis systems production
03 December 2021The grant was used to finance a visit to the Auditory Engineering Laboratory (AEL) to get the missing knowledge to enable further exploration of synthetic speech using hearing research
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